#war

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#common man #construction #doctor #engineer #general

I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#am #big #broadcast #cable #cause

You’ve got to get cold to get warm,” Phoebe said. Now that is the truth. That is so true about so many things. You learn it first with sheets and blankets: that the initial touch of the smooth sheets will send you shivering, but their warming works fast, and you must experience the discomfort to find the later contentment. It’s true with money and love, too. You’ve got to save to have something to spend. Think of how hard it is to ask out a person you like. In my case, Claire asked me to go on a date to the cash machine, so I didn’t actually have to ask her. Still, her lips were cold, but her tongue was warm. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#warm #dating

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war. ↗

— Bao Dai

#given #government #had #i #me

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord. ↗

— Bao Dai

#come #end #last #peace #put

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age. ↗

— Howard Fast

#the-immigrants #age

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#art #fact #interior #life #only

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention. ↗

— Wilhelm Keitel

#anything #conduct #convention #geneva #geneva convention

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. ↗

— Angela Davis

#awareness #certain #i #i think #made

I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it. ↗

— Mark Davis

#because #cannot #census #constitution #constitutional